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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: stereo broadcasts
Message-ID: <533@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 21:38:32 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.533
Posted: Fri Jan 31 21:38:32 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Feb-86 04:42:22 EST
References: <2757@sunybcs.UUCP> <476@tekcbi.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <476@tekcbi.UUCP> jimb@tekcbi.UUCP (Jim Boland) writes:
>> 
>> I was thinking of buying the stereo tv receiver from radio shack 
>> I have cable, so the easiest way to hook
>> it up would be to run cable from the remote tuner to it (so the stereo
>> tv receiver would always be tuned to Ch. 3).
>> Would this work?  
>Probably not as most cable converters have a CH3 or Ch4 modulator in them
>which are not stereo.  The cable industry is not ready for stereo.  
>Before you purchase the receiver, You should call your cable company and
>ask a knowledgable technician if it would work with their system.  There
>is no standard as far as cable companies go and the easiest way to find out
>if yours is stereo compatible is to call them.

Any cable converter that is a full bandwidth IF converter, WILL pass the MTS
signal.  If the converter is a baseband converter, like some of the Zenith
converters, the MTS signal will be lost.

>> Also (i know this will probably be different with many cable companies,
>> but...) do cable companies that broadcast station in FM simulcast (e.g. MTV,
>> Movie Channel, etc..) also broadcast them in stereo for the radio shack
>> device to pick up?
>
>NO
>
>The only guarantee (??) you get for using the R.S. (or other) decoder is that
>it will work if you connect it to an outside antenna and pick up the stations
>over the air.  Of course, it will only work on those stations actually 
>broadcasting in stereo.

False!!!!!.  I have such a converter and it works just fine on cable.  As long
as the stations on the cable are within the channel 2 through 13 range, which
they are on my system.

>With cable, all bets are off.

Again false.  That was something that lots of cable people said.  But, most
found out that it does work.  Our cable company is one of them where it does
work and just fine, mind you.  Our cable company and the stations involved
are working on getting the equipment necessary to get MTS stereo via direct
connection with the station.  Our cable company has direct feeds from the
local stations, so when their transmitter dies, the cable viewers still get
the picture.  Temporarily that is not true for the 2 stereo stations, as
an antenna is needed, by the cable company, to get the MTS signal.  The
receivers they have are IF type receivers, so the MTS signal is passed to
the cable subscribers by default.

>Note:  FM simulcast is NOT stereo TV. 

This one is true.
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